Cost of Corrosion
Process control industries spend an average of $50 billion a year on corrosion problems. Real time corrosion technology from W-M can reduce corrosion costs by up to 20%.
Corrosion can lead to a breakdown in plant infrastructure and equipment that can be:
- Costly to repair
- Costly in terms of lost or contaminated product
- Costly in terms of facility downtime or productivity losses
- Costly in terms of environmental damage
- Costly in terms of safety
Corrosion control equipment will improve your ability to predict how long your process plant can be usefully and safely operated. The measurement of corrosion and the action to fix high corrosion rates permits the most cost effective plant operation to be achieved while reducing the total cost of operation. Corrosion monitoring techniques can help in several ways:
- By providing an early warning that damaging process conditions are developing
- By improving plant uptime due to improved reliability of assets.
- By revealing the correlation between changes in process parameters and their effect on system corrosivity
- By improving productivity and efficiency through the diagnosing of corrosion problems, identifying its cause and the rate controlling parameters, such as pressure, temperature, pH, flow rate, etc.
- By evaluating the effectiveness of a corrosion control/prevention corrective action program
- By reducing maintenance costs by moving from scheduled to reliability-centered maintenance
- By providing the information necessary to perform scheduled maintenance to continue ongoing conditions of Operation